Improving Comment security

Posted: May 25th, 2006 | Author: telcor | Filed under: bBlog Development | No Comments »

One of my goals for Loquacity (ne: bBlog) is to improve comment security. Meaning, put as many tools in the hands of blog authors/owners as I can so they can secure their commenting against spam. usually this involves things like captchas.

Some though prefer to use a login system to verify a commenter is legit. While researching this tonight I discover the typekey, a service provided by SixApart, the makers of Moveable Type, one of the best known blog systems. Perusing their site, I noticed information about a professional network, which appears to give you what is needed to implement typekey on your own site.

Hoping I could find a way to add it to Loquacity, I created a typekey account, went to the home page and tried to join the professional network. Several times. Using different browsers. Firefox brings me to a blank page, IE brings me to a 404 page. Nice.


Introducing Loquacity

Posted: May 22nd, 2006 | Author: telcor | Filed under: bBlog Development | No Comments »

My continuation of bBlog I have renamed to Loquacity (from loquacious). I’m preparing to release version 0.8-alpha1, which includes these changes:

  • Unified comment and trackback handling (both have same checks for example)
  • Captcha
  • Migration to ADODB for Database simplicity
  • Separate code into logical units (e.g. a commentHandler class that handles all things comment related)
  • Reorganization of the filesystem heirarchy
  • No HTML in the core engine
  • Newest version of Smarty
  • Easier to upgrade 3rd party libraries
  • Replacing Magpie with FeedCreator for feed generation
  • Bug fixes galor

I’ll post here and the bBlog forums when the release is ready